New dies

Having been away for a couple of days I arrived home yesterday afternoon to find an envelope from crafts u love waiting on the door mat for me. I knew exactly what was inside and - I had pre ordered one of the new Marianne fan dies a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't wait to have a play.

I cut six of the lacy panels from white card and then backed these with red card cut with the plain panel die in the pack. The little robins were taken from a set of gift tags in my Christmas card recycling bag. They had the robins on the branch added over the top of a flat image of the robins. I carefully peeled off the toppers to leave the image underneath and cut 6 of these using the die as a template to get the right size. I then arranged the fan slats and used a pretty pearl brad to fasten them together at the bottom. spread them out and then stuck them in the open position onto a card stand. I then added the robin toppers that I had previously removed from the gift tags to 3 of the panels and added a ribbon bow tied from bright scarlet ribbon to the end panel and a greeting fussy cut from another card in the recycling bag across the middle. I am really pleased with the effect and can see me making a lot of fan shaped cards in the future. I have some Victorian style decoupage scraps in my stash and I have a feeling these will work really well with the shape, plus because they are on quite thin paper it will enable me to make a working fan, which will open and close.

I am entering this card into the following challenges.

http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/  bingo challenge I chose not square, pearls (the brad) and ribbons

http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/- ribbons
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/ - Anything goes so long as it's Christmas
http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ - Anything goes